Analysis of Travelling Bohemians
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
The prophetic tribe of the ardent eyes
Yesterday they took the road, holding their babies
On their backs, delivering to fierce appetites
The always ready treasure of pendulous breasts.
The men stick their feet out, waving their guns
Alongside the caravan where they tremble together,
Scanning the sky their eyes are weighted down
In mourning for absent chimeras.
At the bottom of his sandy retreat, a cricket
Watched passing, redoubles his song,
Cybele, who loves, adds more flower,
Makes fountains out of rock and blossoms from desert
Opening up before these travelers in a yawn—
A familiar empire, the inscrutable future.
Translated by William A. Sigler
Submitted by Ryan McGuire
Scheme | AXXX XBXA XXB XXB B X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010110101 10110110110 11101001110 01101011001 0111111011 0110101110010 1001111101 0101101 1010111001010 110111 1111110 110111010110 1001011100001 00101000010010 0101100100 01011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 676 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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